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Improvement
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Status: Resolved
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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2.1.0
Description
Spark 2.1 introduced scalable support for Hive tables with huge numbers of partitions. Key to leveraging this support is the ability to prune unnecessary table partitions to answer queries. Spark supports a subset of the class of partition pruning predicates that the Hive metastore supports. If a user writes a query with a partition pruning predicate that is not supported by Spark, Spark falls back to loading all partitions and pruning client-side. We want to broaden Spark's current partition pruning predicate pushdown capabilities.
One of the key missing capabilities is support for disjunctions. For example, for a table partitioned by date, specifying with a predicate like
date = 20161011 or date = 20161014
will result in Spark fetching all partitions. For a table partitioned by date and hour, querying a range of hours across dates can be quite difficult to accomplish without fetching all partition metadata.
The current partition pruning support supports only comparisons against literals. We can expand that to foldable expressions by evaluating them at planning time.
We can also implement support for the "IN" comparison by expanding it to a sequence of "OR"s.
This ticket covers those enhancements.
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